Germany Enacts Laws to Attract
Highly Skilled Foreign Workers

By

G. Pascal Zachary and

Cecilie Rohwedder Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

Updated July 2, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

Germany is stepping up efforts to attract talented foreigners, enacting new policies that for the first time will allow it to compete with the U.S. in the battle for highly skilled professionals, scientists and technicians from the developing world.

Nations such as the U.S., Canada and Australia have improved their competitive positions in the international economy in recent years by harvesting the best and brightest from poor...